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Adam & Eve

Genesis 2:4-25 GNTD
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GEN 1:26-31

 

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MAT 19:4-6

 

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ACT 17:26

 

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1TI 2:13

 

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An ApplicationThis elaborated what happened on day 6. Notice the first thing God was recorded in this chapter as saying to Adam was "you may" (GE 2:16). In the original Hebrew it says "freely you may." This came before the command not to eat from that one tree. God is good. His commands are like rules in a sports game. They establish norms to keep us safe, like a playground. Our own choices turn our lives into prisons (PR 19:3, JN 8:34) but God is both our Creator & Savior (ISA 43:11, JN 3:16-18).

Connect the DotsGE 2:16-17 sets us up for the next chapter, and the theme of giving humanity an explicit choice between life and death is repeated almost countless times in the rest of scripture. One succinct example was DT 30:19. By the way, the choice is supposed to be easy, as lamented in DT 30:11-15. We're the ones who make it complicated, because we want it both ways: we want the benefits of the forbidden, but we don't want to pay the price (GAL 5:17).

GE 2:4-Ω
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